that reminds me of when an alpha gets a room's attention by yelling "okay, people!!!" usually they clap their hands a couple of times to establish their dominance of volume. if i ever called a woman "m'lady" i would drop a bottle of red pepper spray into her palm and demand that she point-blank me with it then spit on me as i writhe with pain in the wonderful curbside debris. i deserved that.
every time i hear "ladies", this is what i hear. my name is keith, and i've always hated it. i also have a bad habit of calling girls "hun", thank god i'm not in a professional setting. i don't really mind being called any of the aforementioned nicknames, but what will get my ire up is if you call out to me as "hey you" and snap your fingers. do that, and there's a 100% chance you'll be ignored.
how am i just seeing this thread now? i hate being called chief. "hey, chief how are ya?" my usual response? "do i look like a fuckin indian to you?"
you were a bartender, weren't you? either that or you were surrounded by douchebags at some point in your life.
when i was 14, i received a nickname that matches both the initials and number of syllables of my real name: stick boner i remember it's genesis vividly. it happened on a bus a bunch of us had rented to see our friends play a show at the el mocombo tavern in toronto. the guys behind me were playing some dumb word association game when one of them yelled "hey, how about steve b-----, aka stick boner?" everyone looked at each other and realized the gem he'd stumbled upon, before laughing uncontrollably. a few months later we were in the smoking pit at school and he noticed a piece of paper tucked in the mesh pocket of my backpack which had my full name printed on it. he grabbed it out of my pack and read, "stephen richard b-----... are you telling me your name is stick dick boner?" 18 years later and i finally think its been retired. though when i visit my hometown someone will occasionally still call me stick.
champ. in the army over here in aus when your in the shit you generally get talked down to and called champ. the bleeding hearts made it so you can't abuse people verbally and so champ has basically taken the place of all the old names you used to get called. it's a real quick way to get into a fight out in the town if you call anyone from the army champ.
it was douchebags, but i did spend a lot of time in bars in my youth, so it could have been then too.